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Letter from Robert Burns to Robert Graham, 10 June 1790

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Archive number
NTS/02/25/BRN/01/62
Alt. number
3.6093.a-b
Date
10 June 1790
On display
No
Creator
Burns, Robert (Author)
Recipient
Graham, Robert

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Letter from Robert Burns to Robert Graham, dated Ellisland, 10 June 1790 a. Beginning of poem ' Fintry, my stay in worldly strife' b. Continues with ' The muffled murtherer of Charles'

Burns met Robert Graham at Athole House, Blair Atholl in 1787. They became friends and later, once Graham had become a Commissioner of the Scottish Board of Excise, Burns sought Graham's good offices to get himself a position with the Excise in Dumfries.

This letter and epistle is the second written to Graham by Burns. Burns focuses his writing on the recent burgh elections in and around Dumfries.

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